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  1. Re:Still ignoring the issue on A Crowdfunding Site To Help Pay Patients' Medical Bills · · Score: 1

    Yes, I was supporting your point. Disaster only health insurance makes sense if you could pay for common procedures out of pocket. Also the profit caps on insurers actually give them a perverse incentive to drive up costs- the only way to grow their business is to increase subscribers or gross amounts on claims. There are myriad issues for the high cost of medical care and they are rarely discussed.

  2. Re:+3000$ AR15 rifles on OSINT Analysis of Militia Communications, Equipment and Frequencies (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    There are lots of nice ones like LMT for under 2000... 3000 is really stretching it.

  3. Re:Still ignoring the issue on A Crowdfunding Site To Help Pay Patients' Medical Bills · · Score: 1

    Inflation adjusted cost for having a baby was about 1000$ in the 60s.

  4. Re:How about time for consumer CPUs without a GPU? on AMD: It's Time To Open Up the GPU (gpuopen.com) · · Score: 1

    Get a pentium4 that uses a huge amount of silicon!

  5. Re:Here we go again ... on The Telecommunications Ball Is Now In Cuba's Court · · Score: 1

    I think they will have Mc Culture sooner than you think.

  6. Re: A pair of great walls! on The Telecommunications Ball Is Now In Cuba's Court · · Score: 1

    You have never heard of the Boarder of Cuba? There are plenty of makework jobs there.

  7. Ask Him on Ask Slashdot: Math-Related Present For a Bright 10-Year-Old? · · Score: 1

    Ask him what he wants for his birthday and get him that.

  8. Re:End of the bubble is coming on Tech Salaries Had Biggest Year-Over-Year Leap In 2015 (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah we had a bunch of 'Dreamweaver Developers' and I was supposed to use their templates for .jsp sites. The html was all crap and the way the images were cut up was no good so I had to redo everything they gave me. Those were the days.....

  9. None of these people are using encryption, especially take out restaurants.

  10. Re:Meh, you all should know the drill by now... on Disney IT Workers Allege Conspiracy In Layoffs, File Lawsuits (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You really seem to have a lack of imagination about what unions can do- they have political and media connections and lawyers on payroll. Very likely they would of threatened legal action early on and prevented the workers from losing their jobs. What do you think they do, just collect dues and provide picket signs?

  11. Re:no spoilers, haven't seen it yet (really.). on Disney IT Workers Allege Conspiracy In Layoffs, File Lawsuits (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't see it, don't plan to.

  12. Re:Class action requirements? on Disney IT Workers Allege Conspiracy In Layoffs, File Lawsuits (computerworld.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think replacing Congress with H1-Bs is an excellent idea!

  13. Re:Because it's true? on Why 6 Republican Senators Think You Don't Need Faster Broadband (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Netherlands is twice the size of New Jersey. There is a county in my state the size of NJ with a total population of 15,000....

  14. Except smart criminals like you see in movies are vanishingly rare. Two high profile case recently with a linked phone being used order take out.

  15. Re:Accusation through misunderstanding on YouTube and the Modern Mad Scientist (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    They are not going to discover anything. Scientists would have measured a discrepancy in their experiments with electricity and magnetism which probably number in the tens of thousands.

  16. Re:Accusation through misunderstanding on YouTube and the Modern Mad Scientist (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2

    Physicist are already working at this with things like LIGOS and LHC, except at a trillion + times the precision people monkeying around with magnets and wires are working with.

  17. Re:Say what you will on Apple Court Testimony Reveals Why It Refuses To Unlock iPhones For Police (dailydot.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    You have to wonder how they ever solved crimes before there were smartphones

  18. Its Dollars and Cents on Hollywood Turning Against Digital Effects (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Shooting on location is very expensive and prone to unexpected costs while CGI effects are well understood- any overruns would be due to poor management.

  19. You missed too that there is no simple 'failure mode' for airplanes. If the auto gets confused it just needs to pull to the side of the road and put emergency blinkers on. With planes, not so much.

  20. Re:Doesn't matter anyway on Game Historian: Gygax Swiped Fantasy Rules From a Forgotten 1970 Wargame (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a game for goodness sake, not a scholarly article. Not to mention that attribution might embroil you in some sort of lawsuit.

  21. Re:Nine years of pair programming? on Code Reviews vs. Pair Programming (mavenhive.in) · · Score: 1

    Never had formal pair programming- just anecdotes on when it was productive to bother another programmer and visit their cube.

  22. That's just dumb. As niche as D&D was, do you think I would of had the opportunity to play it if it was a 'free' pile of notebooks somewhere? Would the cost of my time be worth more to write my own set of monsters and rules? Being a DM alone was hours of work, even with the purchased materials.

  23. Re:Nine years of pair programming? on Code Reviews vs. Pair Programming (mavenhive.in) · · Score: 2

    Actually I have learned quite a bit about efficiently running IDEs, debuggers and troubleshooting techniques from pair programming. Coding, not so much- I can pick that up just looking at someone else's code.

  24. Re:Forbes doesn't like AdBlock on Theoretical Evidence For a Ninth Planet Beyond Pluto May Be Premature (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure if it was the IR emission or the methane ;-)

  25. Re:Unlikely on Can Author Obfuscation Trump Forensic Linguistics? (webis.de) · · Score: 1

    Someone should write a English compiler.